Audrey Part Deux

Hello again! I intended to get up to date with the blog much quicker than I actually am. Saturday we were in Trier all day and I spent the majority of Sunday being a total bum. I ate like total crap this weekend so that contributed to the laziness on Sunday. I still managed to lose two pounds though, holla! Anywho, lets pick up where we left off....

After the C-section I was taken back into the L&D room where I waited to be transported to the Mother/Baby ward. I couldn't leave L&D until I could feel my legs, which took a little while. I hardly remember the time period after the surgery while I waited to be transported. It was all such a whirlwind. Doctors and nurses were in an out checking on Audrey and I. I tried nursing her but she wouldn't latch on. The nurses said that is pretty normal for c-section babies so I wasn't concerned. I wasn't in any pain either, just itchy beyond belief! I was itchy everywhere but it was the worst right above my lip. So weird! A friend of mine told me the same thing happened to her so it must be normal. All I wanted to do was hold my baby and call my family. Both were nearly impossible. We had too much traffic in the room to even think about calling family and the doctors kept taking Audrey. Apparently she needs bathed after sitting in a hot tub for 10 months ;) A pediatrician also came in and looked her over to make sure everything was okay. He noticed two small dimples at the top of her bum (they are so cute!) that he was concerned about it. They are called sacral dimples and can cause problems later on in life. You would think I would be panicked, but I was so drugged up it hardly phased me. (more on that later..)

After her first bath :)

Fast forward to when we finally got down to Mother/Baby ward. The hospital stay really wasn't too bad, but I know I would have enjoyed it much more if 1) my family was here 2) I wasn't breastfeeding. Breastfeeding was a complete nightmare! She would NOT latch and she cried and cried when we tried. The nurses were helpful, but it just was not working. We even had a lactation consultant come in and she was awful! She was very forceful and Audrey and I were both bawling and she did not let up. I was in so much pain and this lady was jerking me and the baby around trying to get her to latch. I was a wreck, I felt so guilty because she was hungry and I could not feed her. I ended up having to pump and feed her with a little syringe. It was such a joyous time and I was miserable because I guess I just expected the breastfeeding crap to come naturally, so not the case. I also did not realize how badly I would want my family there. I wanted to share that time with them so badly. Military life has many perks, but it is so stinking hard sometimes.

I wasn't impressed with the day time nurses, but our night time nurses were fabulous. It was a younger, new girl that was still training and a big burly man-no joke. They were awesome though! They had to come in every few hours and massage my belly to make sure my uterus was going down or something weird like that. Needless to say, this was excruciating. I was on painkillers but it did not help. In walks this big, buff man with giant hands saying, "I have to massage your belly." Talk about terrifying. Turns out he was so much more gentle than the women nurses!He was Brandon and I's favorite nurse.

Hanging out at the hospital

It was painful to get up so I did not change one diaper until we got home from the hospital. Brandon was so incredible with her. He was very attentive to both of us and I am so grateful for that. He was at my side helping me get up, getting me things, asking if I needed anything. The first night he even slept on the cold hospital floor because he didn't know the chair folded out into a bed LOL Poor guy.

I only stayed in the hospital for 48 hours. The doctor suggested staying another night, but said there was no medical reason that they could not discharge me, so they left it up to me. I chose to go home even though I really should have stayed. I just wanted to get into my own bed. Did I mention I couldn't shower for 2 days because of my stitches? I was so disgusting. Once we finally got the discharge papers and my brown paper bag full of pills (seriously, a bag full of them) we high tailed it out of there. I could not wait to get home. I was expecting to get a wheelchair and have a nurse wheel me out or something, hey I just had major abdominal surgery. Nope. Mother/Baby ward is on the second floor and I had to just walk my hobblin butt outta there. I couldn't even stand up straight! It took a solid 30 minutes with several breaks. That's a military hospital for ya. I was discharged and not their problem anymore. The drive home was pretty miserable because military bases love speed bumps. These are not just little speed bumps, they are the kind that you need to make a complete stop to cross. I am NOT exaggerating. Percocet was my best friend for about a week. Oh well, I survived ;)

Getting ready to go home! She wasn't thrilled.

First car ride!

Home and snuggling Daddy :)

From here on out I plan to do a post on Audrey monthly so I can share her monthly photos and updates. Of course I will post in between as well because I am basically obsessed with this baby.

Thanks for reading yall!